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I have awful sleep habits

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Do you have good sleep habits?

Mine are horrible! I’ve never been an early to bed early to rise type of person. Oh and I can go to bed early and get up early in the morning if I have to – but if I don’t have to … well, I stay up late, typically midnight or later and get up when I have to and not before.

By this I mean, If I have to work at 7:30 a.m. I’ll go to bed at midnight and get up at 5:30 in the morning in order to be to work on time and I’ll get by on that 5.5 hours sleep just fine. But if I have a chance to sleep in, if I don’t have to work, or if I’m working later I’ll sleep later and I’ll go to bed later.

Since I’ve been off work on medical leave my sleep habits are worse than ever. I often go to bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and sleep until 10 or 11 in the morning. I guess it could be worse, but if I ever want to get back on a more regular schedule I need to start getting to bed earlier and getting up at least by 9. right?

maybe if I were to take a sleeping aid like Melatonin or something it might help me go to bed a bit earlier each night until my sleeping hours were little more acceptable.

What are your sleep habits like? Do you go to bed early or late?





Forgetting to eat? Yep

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This is a strange thing for me to have to say but I think I’m going to have to start eating MORE.

I was just saying on my main blog that ever since I started taking a new medication for my migraines (that’s working for the most part) I’ve been losing weight.

The medication has a lot of side effects and I think I’ve been experiencing most of them. LOL Tingling hands and feet, brain fog, weird vision – ie bright peripheral flashes, trouble finding words, slurring, tiredness, anorexia (lack of appetite), taste perversion (food and drink tastes funny or bad) and of course weight loss. The weight loss may be a simple result of all the side effects making me feel so weird, and of course of having less of an appetite and then when I do try to eat or drink anything it tastes weird, different or just not as good as it used to taste.

The company that makes this migraine medication (actually it’s a drug for epilepsy) actually tried to get it approved as a diet medication but that didn’t work out because of all the other side effects I think.

Anyway … as it stands … I did have some extra weight on me when I started taking this medication but now, as a result of all of the side effects and the weight loss I know I won’t be doing a search for diet pills that really work any time soon … because I’ve lost at least 12 pounds in the last three weeks. Maybe more – the last time I was weighed was at my doctors office and most doctors scales seem to be set a little higher so I might have really lost 15+ pounds.

If this keeps up I’m going to be skinny! So … I think I’d better start eating more often … small snacks every couple of hours just to make sure I’m eating. I’m actually forgetting to eat – that’s not good!

Our Car insurance went up – and we thought it was going down Grrrr

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A week or so ago I wrote a post about how we’d just saved a lot of money on our car and home insurance by making a few adjustments on our policy.

What I didn’t know what as that when we bought our new car near the beginning of August and my husband arranged everything with our insurance company. I thought that our car insurance rates had gone down a little bit – especially after we’d made a few adjustments to our policy a week a later. Boy was I wrong!

I guess with some changes to Ontario Insurance Laws that went into effect in early September and the fact that our car is newer – even though it’s a small 4 door 4 cylinder sedan – safe, efficient and that my husband and I have PERFECT driving records – our car insurance went up by about $60 a month.

GRRRRR

Once I saw how much money they took out of our bank account for the monthly policy payment we gave them a call. Of course their computers went down shortly after we started our talk. Uh huh. Before their computers crashed they did say that our payments had been adjusted upwards to cover the slightly higher expense of the new car coverage and that it will go down in the new year when our new contract starts.

I’m going to be calling them back on Monday to clarify exactly how much we’ll be paying when the new contract starts and their computers better not go down again! If I’m not happy with our conversation I think I’ll be spending sometime checking out prices at other car insurance companies next week and see if we can get a better price. If I do find one, hopefully it will be a company that also has house insurance and gives a discount when you combine car and house coverage. Our currant insurance company gives a 20% discount for combining insurance coverage.

Our neighbors and their BIG bed

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Earlier tonight, as my husband and I were having dinner our dog started howling at the door.

We got up to investigate the noise that had startled her. It turned out that our next door neighbours were in the midst of struggling to get a brand new mattress in their front door.

They weren’t having an easy time of it. For some reason they had decided to buy a king sized bed … even though their house (identical to ours) is very small and a king sized bed will probably just about take up most of the master bedroom.

Anyway .. since they were having such a hard time getting the mattress – a latex mattress BTW, inside their house, we decided to try to give them a hand.

It’s actually a good thing that we helped because we had to lift the mattress over the upstairs banister in order to get it to the top floor. It would never have made the turn at the top of the stairs without all of us lifting it up otherwise.

So I presume that they’re now putting their new bed together. I think with all that lifting and building they’ll probably be tired enough to sleep tonight. I hope their new bed is comfortable!

Thinking about going back to work

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I’ve been feeling a lot better over the last couple of weeks.

If you’re a regular reader of this blog or perhaps my main blog you’ll probably remember that I’ve been off work on (unpaid) medical leave for almost five years due to a severe Crohn’s flare up.

During my time off my back also started to act up – probably as a result of not being as physically active as I used to be, and last year my migraines suddenly came back – really bad, with extended visual auras, 24/7 dizziness, brain fog and massive pain.

The good news is that for most of this year my Crohn’s seems to have been settling down. My back has been a lot better as well.

Then in Mid August I saw a neurologist (after having an MRI) and he suggested that I take an anti-convulsive for my migraines – yes it sounded odd to me, but the drug is supposed to help those with migraines and tada … within a day of starting the new medication (Topamax) the constant migraine that I’d had for at least three straight months started to ease off.

The new medication has lots of side effects – I feel kind of dopey, my hands and feet tingle, and everything just tilts every once is a while … but the migraines have disappeared. I’m a little headachey here and there but I think this is going to work.

If the side effects would die down and if the migraines stay away, as well as the Crohns I might either be able to return to my old nursing job in the ER or if that doesn’t suit me anymore maybe try looking for a more suitable health care career that works with health issues.

Last year I didn’t really think I’d ever return to work. Now I have new hope that I might just be back to work by the end of the year or perhaps by the start of the new year. I’d be happy if that happened!

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